This has been happening for decades. This is working as expected.
clort · 2h ago
Perhaps what's new is that a mainstream organisation is posting articles where their reporters have witnessed such attacks.
I've seen stuff on youtube, I've seen internet articles, I've seen thinly veiled references but this is a respectable organisation reporting what they have seen, on the front page.
seszett · 2h ago
I don't know how it is in the UK or other countries, but mainstream information sources in France have been reporting on this for decades, I think mostly everyone is aware. Granted, the opinion in France has always been quite sympathetic to the Palestinian cause (see Chirac with "do you want me to go back to my plane?" in the 90s) although the media and politics have apparently shifted towards more support of Israel in the last few years.
niyyou · 1h ago
How come every time the Israeli crimes are featured in HN, the corresponding article is flagged?
yetihehe · 1h ago
Pretty easy to explain. Israelis, just like other people read HN too. They don't like such articles, so they flag them. If an article receives several flags, it's marked as flagged.
Also, HN is tech site, not political site, so I'm not surprised by this, such articles may be considered off-topic.
bell-cot · 59m ago
Theory: Most HNer's are quite aware of the crummy situation, do not like depressing "Day nnn of Horrible Things Happening in Sudan" updates, and know that discussing Israeli/Palestinian issues on HN has a 0.000% chance of improving anything.
growthrow · 58m ago
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but the 2 state solution is a delusion unfortunately. The Palestinians - and I think they are a made up people - should settle in neighboring countries. The Gulf countries are barely populated and could easily absorb the Palestinians. I just don't see any living side-by-side given the level of animus between the peoples. You can hate me for saying this but this is the reality.
philistine · 2m ago
It is no one’s right to decide if a people is made up or not.
As it stands, resistance to Israelis is enough to define them as a separate nation.
notrealyme123 · 2h ago
Growing up in germany has lead me to have a somewhat blind-eye regarding this topic. But this is just pure evil.
niyyou · 1h ago
I’m absolutely baffled by Germans at this point. I’ve been taking to many Germans in the beginning of the genocide and the major feedback I got was « given what we did to the Jews… we can’t criticize Israel ». Now almost two years after, countless of massive crimes and violated international laws later, I really can’t fathom how people are not outside shouting to their government to stop supporting this evil state (which has nothing to do with Judaism as many courageous Jews are currently pointing out). This is deep corruption at the state level and, likely, deep racism at the population level. Dehumanizing the Palestinians is the main explanation for the silent majority in Germany, and not without irony: yesterday they dehumanized the Jews, and instead of learning a general lesson, they keep dehumanizing other semites in the name of their past crimes.
immibis · 2h ago
Be careful. This comment ("pure evil") is illegal in Germany, under the antisemitism law. Many people got arrested for less. Police show up at apartments unannounced and take all electronic devices. You do not mess around with German law.
BenGosub · 1h ago
It may be illegal, but it's 100% true
s_dev · 2h ago
The ethnic cleansing that is happening in Palestine and what these settlers are doing essentially ensures there can never be peace. The settlers are to me the root cause of the ongoing conflict, it ensure the wound can never heal while land is constantly being stolen. Whatever ceasefire or truce does happen the settlers keep taking more land backed by the Israeli government. Absolutely disgusting.
piva00 · 2h ago
The settlers aren't doing this without support, if the Israeli state didn't want it to be happening it wouldn't. There's tacit support from Israel for the settlements, they have political power.
I'm stating it this way to not push the responsibility only to the individual settlers, it's a concerted operation with broad support from a cohort of Israel's society.
crinkly · 3h ago
I thought this was a tech news site?
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon
nanna · 2h ago
Given that all other problems in the world have now been resolved, it is fair for every news item relating to Palestine to reach the HN front page.
crinkly · 2h ago
AI, AI, AI, AI, Palestine, Rust, AI, AI, AI, AI.
Why am I here?
bravesoul2 · 2h ago
Just some casual kids dying of starvation, shelling. Millions of people displaced. Being shunted around. And a genocide live on social media. Funded by the country most represented on this site.
But yeah there are a lot of problems. I think this one is special as it shows we are going backwards, away from the lessons learned and comventions formed from the Napoleonic and World wars. We are going back to all's fair. And that might come for you or me one day.
I've seen stuff on youtube, I've seen internet articles, I've seen thinly veiled references but this is a respectable organisation reporting what they have seen, on the front page.
Also, HN is tech site, not political site, so I'm not surprised by this, such articles may be considered off-topic.
As it stands, resistance to Israelis is enough to define them as a separate nation.
I'm stating it this way to not push the responsibility only to the individual settlers, it's a concerted operation with broad support from a cohort of Israel's society.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon
Why am I here?
But yeah there are a lot of problems. I think this one is special as it shows we are going backwards, away from the lessons learned and comventions formed from the Napoleonic and World wars. We are going back to all's fair. And that might come for you or me one day.